Emmanuel Macron will respond to a television interview on Monday

2023-07-22 19:32:00

The President of the Republic will answer questions from journalists from TF1 and France 2, live from Noumea, New Caledonia.

By Martin Pereira with AFP Emmanuel Macron will be interviewed Monday on the 1 p.m. TV news of TF1 and France 2 from Noumea. © LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP Published on 07/22/2023 at 7:32 p.m.

Emmanuel Macron will give an interview on Monday to the 1 p.m. television news of TF1 and France 2, from Nouméa where he is on the move, the channels announced in a press release on Saturday. After renewing his confidence in Elisabeth Borne and announcing a reshuffle of his government on Thursday July 20, the President of the Republic must go to New Caledonia this Sunday July 23. He must also travel to Vanuatu, as well as Papua New Guinea. An official visit, the day after the assessment of the “100 days” established in a logic of appeasement with the French.

After intense negotiations, Emmanuel Macron also made 11 changes to the government team, with the entry of eight new ministers and the promotion to Education of Gabriel Attal, who will have to prepare for the start of the school year.

The opportunity to send a warning to his ministers on Friday, whom he asked to be “exemplary” and above all to bring “efficiency” rather than “speaking in the post”. Because for him, “a good part of the democratic crisis is linked to the fact that decisions do not arrive quickly enough in the lives of our compatriots”.

As the summer break looms, and a last Council of Ministers on Wednesday by videoconference before the return of this exercise on August 23, the executive has yet to put the finishing touches to the presentation of its “ecological planning”, which will be unveiled at the end of August.

READ ALSOMacron: the hour of indecisionBut the main challenge ahead is the preparation of the budget, a challenge that is as much technical as it is political. The president has already warned that in terms of public finances, the “framework” would be “demanding” and that “order” would prevail.

He would thus join a strong demand from the Republicans, a pivotal group in the Assembly where the executive does not have an absolute majority. Because the LRs are already raising the specter of a motion of censure likely to overthrow the government if they consider the budget too lax.